KNOX – Great Bear Rainforest film a ‘catalyst for conversation’
IAN McALLISTER’S new Great Bear Rainforest film isn’t just an Imax movie. It’s an international awareness project meant to help save a breathtaking, fragile [Continue]
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KNOX – Dr. Zhivago meets Fargo – Victoria finally gets a taste of winter
HERE IS THE ULTIMATE tragedy for a child: A snow day — on a Friday no less! — that isn’t. It was at 11 a.m., around the time that many West Shore drivers were figuring [Continue]
KNOX – In the hinterland, legislature fuss feeds disconnect with capital
CHERYL-ANN ABERNATHY doesn’t know much about the allegations of improper spending at the legislature but they don’t surprise her. Lots of things go on in Victoria’s [Continue]
KNOX – Already hitting The Wall on those New Year’s resolutions
NEWS ITEM: Samsung has unveiled a 219-inch television nicknamed The Wall. “We need one,” I said. She tried to change the subject: “Did you read about that woman in [Continue]
KNOX – Well-known B.C. sports writer Jim Taylor was a childhood hero
“NOBODY WANTS to do funny anymore,” Jim Taylor would say, every time we talked. “They’re all so serious.” I would respond by furrowing my brow and nodding seriously [Continue]
KNOX – Even a map dowser couldn’t turn up winning $1 million lotto ticket
THIS HURTS. Hurts almost as much as Canada’s loss to Finland in the world juniors. Worse, if you’re a lottery player. A $1-million lottery ticket that was sold in [Continue]
KNOX – Yes, you’re in Canada, and Victoria is a hockey town
DEAR HOCKEY FANTS/ PARTISANS du jeu de la dipsy-doodle, On behalf of Canada/le grand pink bit sur la map, I would like to welcome/bienvenue you to Victoria, home to the world [Continue]
KNOX – A Christmas story in need of a happy ending
I MISS STUART McLEAN. Or, rather, I miss Dave and Morley, the characters the late CBC Radio storyteller created for The Vinyl Cafe. I miss them even though Dave, an unmade [Continue]
KNOX – And the award for the most abused word ever goes to…… awesome!
AWESOME IS AWFUL. “A perfectly good word rendered meaningless by everyone using it all the time when so many other words would be more suitable,” opined Lori Hamilton of [Continue]
KNOX – A month after legalization, the feared potocalypse has yet to appear
THE MORNING AFTER Canada legalized recreational marijuana, I ran into Tommy Chong at the Victoria airport. Knowing the 80-year-old pot icon had flown in the day before for an [Continue]
KNOX – Generations hand down tales of war and sacrifice
SGT. BILL BOLDT’S letter, penned while convalescing in France, began on a reassuring note. “Now Sis, don’t be alarmed,” he wrote, referring to the Red Cross [Continue]
KNOX – Synagogue slaughter proof that hatred is still among us
SEVEN YEARS AGO, after someone spray-painted ugly black swastikas on five grave markers, I wandered around Victoria’s Jewish cemetery, looking at some of the names. Here [Continue]
KNOX – Get your pencils ready to begin this week’s current events quiz
GOOD MORNING class. Time for a current events quiz. Pick up your pencils and begin. 1. In the U.S., they’re up in arms (as it were) over pipe bombs being mailed through the [Continue]
KNOX – No reefer madness as legalization begins in Great Weed North
TOMMY CHONG almost didn’t make it to Victoria on Wednesday. The 80-year-old Canadian cannabis legend was scheduled to mark the first day of legalization in the Great Weed [Continue]
